- Title:
- Life School at the Royal Academy
- Additional Title(s):
- The Royal Academy of Arts
- Date:
- 1773
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 20 1/8 x 28 1/2 inches (51.1 x 72.4 cm), Plate: 19 7/8 x 28 1/4 inches (50.5 x 71.8 cm), Image: 19 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (48.9 x 71.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "6"; on back, center: "947/20"; on back, lower left: "No.21 | [...]"; on back, lower right: "[...] | £250"
unidentified collector's stamp: "FRH"
Lettered lower left: "J Zoffany pinxit"; lower center: "Publish'd August 1st. 1773. R Sayer excudit"; lower right: "Rd. Earom Sculpt."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1125
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- academy | brushes | busts | canes | chandelier | drawing | hourglass | lamps | literary theme | men | models (people) | nudes | paintings | palette | portrait | rope | Royal Academy of Arts | school | sculptures | snake | urn
- Associated People:
- Moser, George Michael (1706–1783)
Kauffmann, Angelica (1741–1807), history and portrait painter
Catton, Charles, the younger (1756–1819), landscape painter and book illustrator
Zoffany, Johan Joseph (1733–1810), portrait painter
Wilton, Joseph (1722–1803), sculptor
Sandby, Thomas (bap. 1723, d. 1798), architect and draughtsman
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain
Hoare, William (1707/8–1792), portrait painter
Moser [married name Lloyd], Mary (1744–1819), flower painter
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (1727–1785), decorative painter and draughtsman
Chambers, Sir William (1722–1796), architect
Nollekens, Joseph (1737–1823), sculptor
Wale, Samuel (1721?–1786), painter and book illustrator
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver
Hone, Nathaniel (1718–1784), Irish painter
Yeo, Richard (d. 1779), coin- and medal-engraver
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector
Hayman, Francis (1707/8–1776), painter, engraver, and book illustrator
Newton, Francis Milner (1720–1794), portrait painter
Richards, John Inigo (1730/31?–1810), landscape and scene-painter
Zuccarelli, (Giacomo) Francesco (bap. 1702, d. 1788), landscape painter and draughtsman,
Gwynn, John (bap. 1713, d. 1786), architect
Carlini, Agostino (c.1718–1790), sculptor
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist
Toms, Peter (bap. 1726, d. 1777), painter and herald
Tyler, William (d. 1801), sculptor and architect
Sandby, Paul (bap. 1731, d. 1809), painter and engraver
Serres, Dominic (1722–1793), marine painter
Wilson, Richard (1712/13–1782), landscape painter
Barret, George (1732?–1784), landscape painter
Meyer, Jeremiah (1735–1789), miniature painter
Hunter, William (1718–1783), physician, anatomist, and man-midwife
Burch, Edward (bap. 1730, d. 1814), gem-engraver
Penny, Edward (1714–1791), portrait, historical, and genre painter
Chamberlin, Mason (bap. 1722, d. 1787), portrait painter - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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